CD Designs, Part 2

Here is the next batch of CD designs that I experimented with over the past few months. I have a buddy down in Columbus who is one hellava sax player and a teacher and if he had a website I'd link it. One day when he gets time in his busy schedule to record a CD I'll take a stab at doing the cover. So, I tried out a couple of images. Why the octopus? Why not. It's my favorite cephalopod mollusk if you need to know. Jeez.

And the other design is an early concept for The Good Leads (with sax-hater Chris Quigley I might add) with a title that they were considering.

Lots of stuff going on around here that I'm more than happy to pass along. I'm currently in the midst of my work on the Upper Deck/Marvel sketch cards, working on some unique greeting cards, as well as some commission work. Plus, I will be the new cartoonist for a Seattle health care newspaper, so I'm looking forward to that challenge. And today, I received an invite to be on a new sketch card set, but I've been down that road before, so we'll see. Busy, busy, busy.

CD Designs, Part 1

Prior to doing the artwork for The Good Leads single "Dead To Me Now," I did a few CD designs to experiment with a more graphic black and white look. I mixed and matched band names (The Good Leads, Chris Quigley, The Pseudo Strata Orchestra, [in which I have spelled that wrong on the artwork and apparently am far too lazy to fix right now] and James Miglia) with certain images just to see what would work. I will have another batch in the next post.

These were done in ink with a brush and pen and then tweaked in photoshop.

(Top photo right side image based loosely on a photo by A. Claeys)